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Vivendi Universal signs 50 Cent to headline new action title

US rappers 50 Cent and Dr Dre are set to star in a new
videogame from Vivendi Universal games, which will place them
and fellow rap stars in a Max Payne-esque in an action-packed
interactive odyssey through the criminal underworld.

The existence of the game has been revealed by a
computer-generated teaser trailer released on MTV.com this
week, which also reveals the title - 50 Cent: Bulletproof. We
can almost taste the irony, given the number of times he's
been shot.

The CG clip boasts some extremely impressive combat
choreography as the rapper follows a crime lord into a
skyscraper and tears up his penthouse, ducking out from
behind cover to fire, then running out of ammo and chucking
his pistol at a guard's head.

However, there's little information beyond that - with no
word on target platforms, release dates or even how the game
will play, although the MTV.com site mentions that we can
expect "additional tracks, voices and likenesses of Dr. Dre
and other G-Unit members".

50 Cent will obviously contribute music for the game, and
fans will be interested to learn that some of that will be
freestyle rhymes that can be mixed in the game's "music lab".

According to MTV.com, 50 Cent actually turned down a lead
role in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, deciding to make his
own game instead. "I'm out to destroy the competition and my
videogame is no different," he said. "I plan to shake up the
videogame world like I did the rap world." Albeit presumably
without getting shot quite so much.